Why Use USB to Connect Phones, Tablets, and TVs? While mirroring your phone screen wirelessly is convenient, a direct connection—via USB—is always going to be the better deal.

Video games are everywhere from consoles to your smartphone and now you can even play them on your smart TV, here's how to do it.

Again, this will only work if HDMI-CEC is supported across both the Android TV set-top box and the connected display, but that's pretty common with most recently released hardware.